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Richard Bandler’s
Guide to Trance-formation
Make Your Life Great
TO MY SON JAY,
MY DAUGHTER ELIZABETH,
AND TO DR. GLENDA BANDLER—THE
THREE SHINING LIGHTS IN MY LIFE.
Table of Contents
One Patterns, Learning, And Change
Six Seeing Inside The Black Box
Seven Submodality Distinctions
Twelve Deeper, And Faster, Still
Fourteen Creativity Out Of Confusion
Fifteen Advanced Submodalities
Seventeen Pushing Past Limitations
Eighteen Repatterning The Past
Nineteen The Structure Of Trance-formation
Recommended Reading and Audiovisual Resources
The Society of NLP Richard Bandler Licensing Agreement
WOW! WHAT AN HONOR to write the foreword for one of my favorite books of all time.
Back in 1985, I was working as a radio broadcaster and went to interview a local hypnotist for my programme. It had been a particularly bad week—I’d split up with my girlfriend, the people in the apartment next to where I was living seemed to be having a “who can make the most noise” contest, and to top things off, that morning I’d had a flaming row with my boss.
When I sat down in his office, the hypnotist said, “Rather than try and explain how this works, I think you’d benefit from a demonstration.” Skeptically, I replied, “Let the healing begin.”
To my delighted surprise, in only a few minutes I felt relaxed and quite euphoric. Even more impressive to me was that while I knew there were still issues I had to deal with in my life, they no longer carried any emotional charge. I just knew that I could handle them.
How could it be that easy? Didn’t therapy take months, or even years? Wasn’t I supposed to tell him all about my childhood?
When I asked him what he had done to me, he explained that he had used something called Neuro-Linguistic Programming, or NLP. With NLP, he was able to notice patterns in my language and behavior that let him know exactly what I was doing
